ASSESSING THE MILITARY SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SOUTH CHINA SEA LAND FEATURES

Wednesday, 07 September 2016 02:07
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This article aims to provide a fair assessment of the military significance of the South China Sea land features. The term land feature is intentionally selected to avoid the trouble of arguing whether they are islands, reefs, shoals or rocks.

How these land features can be categorized into the terms shown above may possibly cause differences according to the international regimes governing maritime jurisdictions, but not the military significance of the land features alone. [READ MORE]